Lipstick holder



Dec. 15, 1936. LEE 7 2;064,557

' LIPSTICK HOLDER Filed Feb. 26, 1935 IN VENT OR.

W M W ATTORNEYS -.Patented Dec. 15, 1936 PATENT OFFICE LIPSTICK HOLDER James Lee, Waterbury, Conm, assignor to Scovill Manufacturing Company, Waterbury; Comm, 1. corporation-o! Connecticut Application February 26, 1935, Serial No. 8,235

This invention relates to lipstick holders.

Lipstick holders are on the market of a type in which a flexible strip or shutter covers the end of ahousing to close the holder. Thestrip is so associated with the lipstick carrier and an actuating element that when the latter is moved to advance the lipstick, the closure strip or shutter is automatically displaced to open the holder and permit the lipstick to be advanced for use. Some trouble has been experienced with these holders, when not in use, in that the parts sometimes jar or slip loose so that the shutter opens slightly. As a result, dust and dirt work into the holder to the detriment-of the cosmetic material;

It is an object of the present invention to provide a holder of the general type referred to, such that the shutter is positively butreleasably locked in closed position.

With this general object and others in view the invention consists in the features, combinations, details of construction and arrangements of parts that will first be described in connection withthe accompanying drawing and then more particularly pointed out.

In the drawing,-'

Figure 1' is a perspective view of a lipstick holder constructed in accordance with the invention, showing the holder closed;

Figure 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same;

Figure 3 is a similar view showing the holder open;

Figure 4 is a sectional view taken on the line 64 of Figure 2, and

Figures 5, 6 and 7 are perspective views of parts of the holder removed.

ing. In theembodimenthere illustrated as an example, the liner I-5 comprises side plates I, I1 and a front plate ll which connects and spaces the side plates. The upper and lower ends -of the side plates are rounded, as appears more clearly in Figure 5, the front plate It terminating short of the rounded ends. At the reanthe side plates have inturned flangw I9, 20 leaving a longitudinal opening between their opposing edges. As is shown more clearly in Figure 5, these flanges are continued around the lower curved ends oi the liner. The invention in its entirety includes means for guiding the carrier so as to prevent wabbling and the like. As here shown as an example, each side plate of the liner has alongitudinal slot 22.

vertically alined lugs 23, conveniently formed by striking up the metal of the cup. These lugs ride in the slots 22 to guide andsteady the' cup in its sliding movements. I i I There is provided shutter means fbr the opening i2 comprising a flexible strip movable to cover and expose the opening. In carrying out the invention in its entirety, the shutter is so associated with the carrier and'an actuating element that movement of the actuating element to advance the lipstick automatically withdraws the shutter. This may be conveniently accomplished by forming the shutter'a as the end portion of a single, unitary flexible strip connected to the actuating element and to the carrier. In the embodiment here shown as an example, the

ble strip 24 movable back and forth across opening l2 alternately to close and expose the same.

' The other end of the strip is connected by a pin .Each side wall of the .carriercup i4 hastwo shutter is formedby the end portion of a flexitends through and rides in a slot 21 formed in the front face of the casing ii.

The flexible strip moves between the housing and the liner. At the top, the shutter portion of the strip is guided in a curved path between the upper rounded ends of liner i5 and the rounded end'of the housing. At the bottom, the

main body of the strip is guided between the lower rounded ends of the liner and an arcuate shoe 28. This shoe is carried by a channel piece 29 which constitutes a bottom closure for the holder. This closure telescopes into the lower open end of housing I i and over the liner. Holes 30 formed in the closure side walls man over positioning dowels 3! formed on the liner side plates, thus connecting closure and liner in deflnite spaced relation. The unit' so connected is anchored in the housing by a nib 82 which is struck inwardly from a side wall oi. the housing and which snaps into a halt-moon hole 28 in the closure side-wall when the unit is assembled.

The invention in its entirety includes means for positively but releasably locking the shutter strip in closed position. This may conveniently be accomplished by interlocking elements car;

ried, respectively, by the movable and stationary units of the holder. In the embodiment here illustrated as an example, the front wall IQ of the liner I 5 is cut away to provide a spring- ,When the holder is in the closed position of Figures 1 and 2, the shutter portion of strip 24 covers opening I2; the carrier and its lipstick are withdrawn into the housing; and thumbpiece 26 is at the top of the slot 21. Inthis position, nib 36 is engaged in indentation 31. This engagement is sufficient to effect a positive lock to hold the carrier cup in position against accidental movement. Since the flexible strip 24 can move only when the carrier cup moves, it follows that the shutter is similarly locked in closed position. With the construction described, therefore, the shutter cannot jaror slip open accidentally-while the holder. is not in use and so dust, dirt and the like are eflectively excluded.

To use the lipstick, thumb-piece 26 is pulleddown the slot 21. This operation displaces flexible strip 24 endwise with the result that the shutter portionof the strip is drawn away from opening I! to uncover the same. At-the same time, the main body of the strip pushes carrier I4 upwardly in the holder to project the lipstick to a position for use (Figure 3). [A reverse movement of the thumb-piece reverses the movement of the strip to pull the carrier and its lipstick back into the housing. The parts are so related that after the lipstick has passed within the housing, the shutter portion oi. the strip moves across the opening I2 to close the same. This closing position is flxed by the engagement of the thumb-piece with the end of slot 21 which serves as a stop. As the parts approach closed position, locking nib 36 rides up channel 38 and tongue 35 is sprung outwardly sufliciently to permit nib 36 to pass ridge 39- Thereupon, nib 36 snaps into indentations 31 and the parts are again locked. While the force oif spring tongue 35 is sufllcient to lock the parts positively against accidental dislodgement, the pull of theusers thumb on the thumbpiece to open the holder is suflicient to cause the tongue to be sprung back to release the carrier and hence the shutter strip.

What is claimed is:

In a lipstick'holder, and in combination, a housing having an openingin its upper end, a

liner in the housing, a flexible strip guided between said liner and the housing, a lipstick carrier slidably mounted in said liner and connected to one end of the flexible strip, an actuating element secured to said strip at a distance from the other end thereof, the free end of the strip serving as a shutter for alternately covering and exposing said opening upon movement of the actuating element, a spring tongue out from the wall of the liner, and a locking nib extending inwardly from said spring tongue, the lipstick carrier having a locking hole for receiving said nib, the locking elements being arranged to come into locking engagement as the shutter takes closing position.

JAMES LEE. 

